U+1039A Ugaritic Letter To
U+1039A was added in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Ugaritic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1039A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language. It was discovered in Ugarit, modern Ras Al Shamra, Syria, in 1928. It has 30 letters. Other languages, particularly Hurrian, were occasionally written in the Ugaritic script in the area around Ugarit, although not elsewhere.
Clay tablets written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the North Semitic and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders of the reduced Phoenician writing system and its descendants, including the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and Latin, and of the GeΚ½ez script, which was also influenced by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system, and adapted for Amharic. The Arabic and Ancient South Arabian scripts are the only other Semitic alphabets which have letters for all or almost all of the 29 commonly reconstructed proto-Semitic consonant phonemes.
Note that several of these distinctions were only secondarily added to the Arabic alphabet by means of diacritic dots. According to Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz in Handbook of Ugaritic Studies, 1999,: "The language they [the 30 signs] represented could be described as an idiom which in terms of content seemed to be comparable to Canaanite texts, but from a phonological perspective, however, was more like Arabic" (82, 89, 614).
The script was written from left to right. Although cuneiform and pressed into clay, its symbols were unrelated to those of Akkadian cuneiform.
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 66458 |
UTF-8 | F0 90 8E 9A |
UTF-16 | D8 00 DF 9A |
UTF-32 | 00 01 03 9A |
URL-Quoted | %F0%90%8E%9A |
HTML hex reference | 𐎚 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΕ½Ε‘ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 30 DD 32 |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
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UGARITIC LETTER TO | |
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Ugaritic | |
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Ugaritic | |
Left To Right | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
β | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
β | |
β | |
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